Entry Fee includes: green fee, lunch, dinner, goodie bag, putting contest
and select contest opportunities during the tournament. Each golfer
will be given one (1) door prize ticket. Additional tickets are available for
$5/ticket or $100/25 tickets at check in.

PRIZES and DONATIONS:

We would appreciate all contributions for gifts and tournament items such as: gift certificates, beverages, snacks, logo items, prizes, gifts etc. We will recognize your contribution at the awards banquet and in publications relating to this event. We are happy to pick up the prize donations.

VOLUNTEERS:

ENTHUSIASTIC AND RELIABLE VOLUNTEERS WELCOME AND APPRECIATED!

Volunteers are always welcome to help with pre-event activities like event material preparations, sponsor item pick-up and promotional activities. Golf Tournament Day we need help with set up & break down, on course games, registration and more. If interested in volunteering, please contact us via email at admin@surferspirit.org or call us at 808.593.1718.

PURPOSE

SURF TO THE TURF 2017 is Surfrider Spirit Sessions’ fourth annual golf
fundraiser to help continue our youth mentoring programs.
We help at-risk and adjudicated kids stay out of trouble and get stoked on life!

Problem We Help Solve: There are thousands of youth in Hawaii’s juvenile justice system. Many of them are victims of abuse and neglect, struggling to survive.
The short term cost to our community for every youth incarcerated is $190,000
per year. Without adequate guidance and support, many will never reach their
potential and never know the good they can contribute to our community.
Surfrider Spirit Sessions is a grassroots 501c3 non-profit organization that
works with Hawaii State Family Courts, the Department of Education and other
Hawaii youth agencies to match at-risk and adjudicated teens with volunteer
adult mentors.Our Programs Work! Hawaii courts and parents report a significant reduction in
truancy, drug use, violent outbursts, antisocial behavior, and incarceration rates
among youth who participate in SSS programs.
To date we’ve helped nearly 500 youth get back on track. Your support will help us redirect young lives in positive directions! Learn more about what we do here.

CONTACT

Testimonials

Surfrider Spirit Sessions

"Most of the changes in my son's life – for better or for worse - seemed things that I, as his mother, could not influence much. Without a doubt, the court system and detention home did a lot to deter him from behaving a certain way. But without the Surfrider Spirit Sessions there would have been nothing meaningful to turn toward. Parents often tell a kid what not to do. The real art is to guide the young ones in how to do it right instead. Surfrider Spirit Sessions brought positive insight to my son, and I am very grateful for that!"

Parent S.V.

Surfrider Spirit Sessions

"Most of the changes in my son's life – for better or for worse - seemed things that I, as his mother, could not influence much. Without a doubt, the court system and detention home did a lot to deter him from behaving a certain way. But without the Surfrider Spirit Sessions there would have been nothing meaningful to turn toward. Parents often tell a kid what not to do. The real art is to guide the young ones in how to do it right instead. Surfrider Spirit Sessions brought positive insight to my son, and I am very grateful for that!"

Parent S.V.

Surfrider Spirit Sessions

"This letter is to thank the Surfrider Foundation and Cynthia Y. H. Derosier, author of The Surfer Spirit, for creating the Surfrider Spirit Sessions program and for their continuous support for this vital and innovative program. The Spirit Sessions are a wonderful asset to our community, serving the physical and emotional health and well being of Hawaii's at-risk young women.

...The Spirit Sessions are spectacular for these young women and have become an integral component of the Hawaii Family Court's Girls Court program. With the help of the Spirit Sessions, the girls learn to overcome their fears, to take risks, to deal with disappointments and to experience the growth associatied with achievement."

"We’ve got plenty of kids and we need a positive place to direct them to. Keep it up guys; we need you. You guys are heroes, truly! And everyone who supports this program and is part of this program is a hero, they’re all heroes too."

Judge R. Mark Browning, Chief Judge of the First Circuit

Presiding Judge, Hawaii Juvenile Drug Court

Surfrider Spirit Sessions

"By surfing you understand who you are. Those who surf have an inner connection to the ocean and the elements and an awareness of the world outside themselves. If you make a bad choice on a wave, you wipe out and you learn to change your actions. If you make a good choice, you get the ultimate ride. When you take that knowledge into your life, you make better choices."